Local versus global mimetism: the dynamics of alliance formation in the automobile industry
研究了全球汽车行业35家最大企业间的联盟形成动态，发现企业更倾向于模仿同一战略群体内企业的联盟行为，而非整个行业的联盟密度。
Abstract The alliance dynamics among the 35 largest firms in the worldwide automobile industry indicates that the likelihood of an alliance between any two firms depends on the local density of alliances among the members of their strategic groups, rather than on the global density of alliances in the industry. These results suggest that firms most closely observe and imitate the strategic behavior of firms who occupy the same strategic niche rather than the behavior of firms in their industry defined more broadly. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.